Fox is an un-(only barely)official propaganda arm of the Republican Party.
Since 2002, they have been promoting an ever more extremist radical agenda, and the Republicans elected to Congress have reflected this. After Joe McCarthy was disgraced in the 1950s, we never used to hear the insanity on the Senate floor and the House floor we hear now.
Pure hateful propaganda, completely divorced from both reality and civility, used to be a disgrace in Congress. Now, with the likes of Senators like Cotton of Arkansas and Ernst of Iowa, and Representatives like Gohmert of Texas and King of Iowa, they are the norm. Without the nonsense spewing 24/7 from Fox, people would have a fighting chance to detect the BS and the incompetence. Look at their 2012 nominee. Compared to the rest of them, Romney came across as almost moderate, and was touted as competent. He lost. What message did that send Republicans about candidates who are moderate or competent? They lose!
Under Fox-free circumstances, incompetent maniacs that belong on a soap box in Hyde Park, and not in the Congress of the United States, would never be taken seriously, even in the districts/states they currently represent. However, if an ignorant electorate believes that the alternative is an "evil liberal (and what liberal isn't evil, after all?)," then of COURSE these nut cases get elected.
If five year old kids had been the most motivated voter bloc fifty years ago, Huckleberry Hound and George of the Jungle would have been elected to Congress, and Rocky and Bullwinkle would have been president and vice-president.
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